MADRID, 5 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, announced on Wednesday the state of maximum terrorist alert in the Crimean peninsula, annexed in 2014, a step not recognized by the international community.
Patrushev has indicated that “there are a number of potentially dangerous installations that do not have physical protection or technical security equipment” and has asked local authorities to “immediately eliminate the existing deficiencies”.
“The importance of this work derives from the high level of sabotage and terrorist threat in the context of the special military operation in Ukraine,” he explained, referring to the military invasion unleashed on February 24 by order of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Likewise, he has denounced that the number of incidents with firearms and explosives “has increased significantly” in Crimea and has advocated putting in place “plans to deal with terrorism in line with the level of terrorist threat”.
Patrushev has also revealed that the security forces have prevented “twelve terrorist crimes” on the peninsula and has directly pointed to the far-right Right Sector organization and Hizb-ut Tahrir as allegedly responsible for these plans, according to the Russian news agency Interfax. .
The peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014 after an internationally unrecognized referendum, has been on high alert since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. Since then, the Simferopol airport has been out of service.
